English Translation of the Daily Hukamnama (Siri Guru Granth Sahib Ang: 709)

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Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh!

Today’s hukamnana is from page 709 of the SGGS.

 In today’s hukam the Guru is speaking to us really simply about the benefit and promise of a single minded life.  A mind that is really focused on the experience of the divine and not too concerned with other things.  The Guru says, "With the tongue and voice talk about the Naam, the divine identity.  With the ears listen to the Shabad",  which brings the experience of Amrit and the experience of your own deathlessness.  The Guru says, "He is forever a sacrifice for those who meditate on the transcendent one."  That notion of being a sacrifice for: what does it mean?  The Guru is there to do everything in his power to help those who are truly trying to experience the divine in the state of meditation. 

Then the Guru says, "all the other works that we do don’t come to anything."  Most of what we do in our life has a very temporary outcome.  We can earn money for today or money for the month.  We have families, even though those families are with us our whole lives but when we leave our body they are not with us in the experience of death.  All these things that we pursue in life do not lead to experience of truth.  When we are focusing on the identity of divinity and the truth of divinity and self seeing the whole creation: that is the work that really means something.  Guru Nanak says that the people who are in state of love and can experience truth through that love are really blessed.  It’s not really love for someone or love for something.  It’s just the love that genuinely lives inside us.  When we can be with that love: that being with love and with the truth of divinity is a tremendous blessing.  Again the Guru is saying to those who listen to this story of this divine essence inside of everything, people who spend their time in that way the guru is a sacrifice to those people.  So again that notion of sacrifice that Guru will do everything in his power to help them.

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